Dr. Seuss & How the Secular Humanist Stole Christmas
It is telling when the deficiencies of the adult world are told in the pages of children’s books. An instance…
The Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter
Christmastime is the homiest holiday: firesides, feasting, family… and fairy folk. The richest Christmas traditions concern down-to-earth things; which only…
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Ignorance and Want: “…no degradation, no perversion of humanity, in any grade… has monsters half so horrible and dread.” Leave…
The Great American Sex Fantasy
I got the idea for this fantasy from a dear and respectable gentleman who is a college professor, like myself….
“The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry: The Wise Fools of Christmas
Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat. Please put a penny in the old man’s hat. As Christmas carols…
The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
There is nothing like a good ghost story. The forms of fiction are few that can compete with the proverbial dark…
Coincidentally: A Cornucopia of Pharmacopoeia
The Scots are famously reserved in their habits and modest demeanor, but this has not restrained their substantial claim to…
Coincidentally: A Nation Mourns
Adolf Frederick V, grand duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, was born during the presidency of James Knox Polk, who was born in…
J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings: Handbook of Hope
by Emma Warner
“Where there’s life there’s hope, as my Gaffer used to say; and need of vittles, as he mostways used to add.”…
The Devilment and Duels of Life
Fyodor Dostoevsky was condemned to death—public execution by firing squad. The year was 1849 and the young Dostoevsky, fresh from…
